---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Crystal, James
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 20
number: 10
published: 1917-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'James Crystal, "Take Courage," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 10 (August 1917): 944.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20010unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera20010unse
start_page: 944
end_page: 944
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20010unse
  publication_year: 1917
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Take Courage

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Take  Courage
Though   war   afflicts   the   world
With  want  and  woe  and  fear,
Truth's   banner  is   unfurled
Our  hearts  to  bless  and  cheer;
The  blest  Millennium,  by  and  by,
Will  drain  our  tears  of  sorrow  dry.
So  let  me  not  be  faint,
Nor  think  God's  promise  lost,
But  strive  to  be  a  Saint,
Whate'er   may   be    the    cost.
With  Heav'n  to  help  us,  what  can  harm
Our  homes  or  cause  our  souls  alarm?
The  wars  we  now  behold
That  terrorize  the  earth,
By  Heav'n  will  be  controlled
To   prove   of  nameles?   worth;
To  make  the  proud  and  vain  confess
Their  need  of  God  to  save  and  bless.
After  this  savage  war,
When   peace   has   been   restored,
The   nations   near   and   far
Will  learn  to  trust  the  Lord;
And  truth,  triumphant  evermore,
Will  be  revered  as  ne'er  before.
So,  be   encouraged    still,
Though  war  clouds  shroud  the   sky,
And  trust  to  Heaven's  will
To  bring  Salvation  nigh;
That  earth  may  be  redeemed  from  woe
And  man  be  blessed  with  peace  below.
James  Crystal
Altonah,  Utah